The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 18:2 (2015)

Editors

Laura Villa | Queens College – CUNY

Rik Vosters | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

[Written Language & Literacy, 18:2] 2015. v, 125 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.18.2

Table of Contents

Articles

Language ideological debates over orthography in European linguistic history

Laura Villa & Rik Vosters | pp. 201–207
Iconisation, attribution and branding in orthography

Mark Sebba | pp. 208–227
Official orthographies, spelling debates and nation-building projects after the fall of the Spanish Empire

Laura Villa | pp. 228–247
Proficiency and efficiency: Why German spelling changed in Early Modern times

Anja Voeste | pp. 248–259
Three Southern shibboleths: Spelling features as conflicting identity markers in the Low Countries

Rik Vosters & Gijsbert Rutten | pp. 260–274
The Portuguese Language Spelling Accord

Rita Marquilhas | pp. 275–286
Macedonian orthographic controversies

Christina E. Kramer | pp. 287–308
Defining ‘Lithuanian’: Orthographic debates at the end of the nineteenth century

Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė | pp. 309–326

Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Language teaching

Writing and literacy

BIC Subject: CFC – Literacy

BISAC Subject: LAN010000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy